Further evidence that climate-change denialism is about cultural politics and not about science

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May 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM

A few months ago, I advanced THIS ARGUMENT:

It occurs to me that both sides in the debate over global warming have one thing in common: Hardly anybody really wants it to be true that climate-change trends pose a significant threat to our way of life.

But global-warming deniers want it to be untrue for reasons that are fundamentally different from mine, at least in one respect: They donít just want to avoid the havoc of environmental catastrophe.† They find us exponents of mainstream scientific theories on climate change repugnant, and they want us to be disgraced. They have ...

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Pat Cunningham

A few months ago, I advanced THIS ARGUMENT:

It occurs to me that both sides in the debate over global warming have one thing in common: Hardly anybody really wants it to be true that climate-change trends pose a significant threat to our way of life.

But global-warming deniers want it to be untrue for reasons that are fundamentally different from mine, at least in one respect: They donít just want to avoid the havoc of environmental catastrophe.† They find us exponents of mainstream scientific theories on climate change repugnant, and they want us to be disgraced. They have ...